Posted on 01/16/2019 2:51:32 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
In a time when we compulsively post our lives online, it can be easy to ignore logic. The feds say it’s dangerous to step out of moving cars for a viral dance challenge? Who cares. Road rash is worth the likes and shares. Netflix says to stop doing tasks, including driving, blindfolded for another viral challenge?
Who cares. Likes and shares. That’s how it all starts.
A teenager in Layton, Utah doesn’t seem to have been going for viral fame when police say she decided to cover her eyes with a hat while driving for the Bird Box challenge, but became internet infamous anyway because of how royally stupid it all was. Here’s how that went, via a Twitter post from the local police:
The Associated Press reports that the driver, whose name likely wasn’t made public because she’s 17, drifted into oncoming traffic and hit another car after covering her eyes. There weren’t many details on the crash other than that no one was hurt, but the AP reports that Layton police Lt. Travis Lyman gave “a warning he never thought he’d have to” after: Don’t drive while blindfolded.
The challenge that inspired the crash spurred from Netflix’s new movie, Bird Box, which broke Netflix viewership records and became a huge meme online. The movie basically revolves around an invisible-to-the-viewer monster that, when seen, causes most people in the movie to kill themselves, meaning what’s left of the human race has to do things blindfolded in order to avoid it.
Put the jackass is a large bird box with steel bars, and keep him there.
Since Helen Thomas died, I haven’t needed the blindfold nearly as much.
Well, they DO eat Tide Pods on a “challenge”.
So.....
Good one.
Tidepod challenge, cinnamon challenge, etc etc.
Weeding out the weak and stupid is tougher these days.
There was a bit where Ray Charles drove a car with Super Dave Osborne inside. Early 1980’s I think.
she was somebody’s baby, once
The West is doomed!!!!
Kooky movies aren’t new. Getting a powerful meme foothold into society is newer.
[she was somebody’s baby, once]
True. Were they blindfolded, too?
:) :) :) :) :) :)
Somebody on twitter said she shouldn’t be allowed to drive. then the next twitter said or reproduce!
I’m usually okay with loyal Democrat voters bases killing themselves. But she went into oncoming traffic. :)
Not yet a finalist for Darwin but plenty of time.
This is like the “Drink Boiling Water” challenge. Next will be the “Jump Off Of A Cliff” challenge.
LOL!!!!!
[The movie basically revolves around an invisible-to-the-viewer monster that, when seen, causes most people in the movie to kill themselves, meaning what’s left of the human race has to do things blindfolded in order to avoid it.]
I’ll try to miss this one.
Drunk and drugged idiots on the road. Now we have to worry about out and out morons from the moron generation covering their eyes on the road.
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